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I personally wouldn't want my second album to sound like my first; it might sound very rocky or hard rock - and that wouldn't be melancholy. So if people think my music is melancholic, then so be it. It's meant to be uplifting, and I'm just basically saying what needs to be said.

— Benjamin Clementine

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

— Anton Corbijn

I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

— Van Morrison

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

— James Taylor

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

— Eminem

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

— Scott Weiland

Obviously, with your first album, you want to make sure you are really happy with it.

— Jake Bugg

✗Opposing Perspectives

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

— Norah Jones

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

— Jessie J

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

— Jo Stafford

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

— Moby